Deal barracks bombing

The Deal barracks bombing occurred on 22 September 1989 when an IRA time bomb exploded at the Royal Marines School of Music building at the Royal Marine Depot in Deal, Kent, southeastern England. The bomb exploded in the changing room, killing eleven marines and wounding twenty-one. The public was angered, as most of those killed were young soldiers whose only military training was to save lives; they were musicians, not fighters. The Deal attack was claimed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army as a part of its campaign to force the British Army to withdraw from Northern Ireland.